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I had never done a mean or underhanded thing before in my life, but I sprang at that vest without the least hesitation, and fingering it with the lightest of touches, found in the smallest of inside pockets a key, which instinct immediately told me was that of the door I had once endeavored to pass. Oh, the rush of feeling overwhelming me as I held it in my hand!
Enmeshed in obligations that they cannot meet, they struggle vainly, brood hopelessly, and lose that dearest of all possessions, their self-respect. Servility is literal hell to a mountaineer, and when it is forced upon him he turns into a mean, underhanded, slinking fellow, easily tempted into crime.
I say again that if Ronleigh is to retain its reputation, and be kept from going to the dogs, it's high time these underhanded bits of foul play like the reading-room row and this attack on Browse were put a stop to; and I beg you all to join in taking measures to prevent anything of the kind occurring again in the future." The speaker concluded his remarks amid a general outburst of applause.
"You plannin', schemin', underhanded " "Shh! shh!" put in Captain Obed. "Easy, Hannah! easy, there!" "I shan't be easy! You mind your own affairs, Obed Bangs! Kenelm Parker, how dare you say how dare you tell me you're goin' to marry this this INMATE? What do you mean by it?" Poor Kenelm only gurgled. His lady love once more came to his rescue.
"I wouldn't call it underhanded, either," explained Jordan. "Prescott's manner with me might much better be described as overbearing." "It would have been underhanded, had he reported you when you were really doing nothing unmilitary or improper," interposed Stubbs quickly. "Are you trying to defend the fellow?" demanded Jordan swiftly.
The woman searched his face to see if he were deceiving her, but there was nothing sly or underhanded in the clear eyes that returned her gaze so frankly. "Hm-m," she murmured, thoughtfully. "What do you do Saturday nights, boy?" "Nothin' much, after I've sold out my papers."
There's your work, it seems to me, for you and those nearest to you are to blame for the desolation of those poor homes, excuse it as charitably as we may." Frances felt a shudder run through the girl's body as her arm clasped the pliant waist. "Why, Frances! You can't mean that! They're terrible just think what they've done oh, the underhanded thieves!
I do not like to do anything which looks in the least underhanded, but I must admit that I left that wretched cottage by the back door, and taking a path through some woods, made a wide circuit before returning to the village.
"None of the gentlemen who had been found drowned had shown any marks of violence on their bodies, so it was not attack I was to fear, but some mysterious, underhanded treachery which would rob me of consciousness and make the precipitation of my body into the water both safe and easy. Perhaps it was in the bottle of brandy that the peril lay; perhaps but why speculate further!
The church was crowded the day old Billy was buried, for a funeral in Glendow was always an important event. Parson John was clad in his simple robes of office and read the Burial Service in a resonant, well-modulated voice. Beholding such nobleness, gentleness and dignity of his face and bearing, only the most suspicious could associate him with any underhanded dealing.
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